In the post-match interview, Butler expressed extreme dissatisfaction with Warriors and Pachulia.
"Bad game, bad duel, originally we could have entered Finals."
Butler said this.
The accusations, which were almost made by name, once again set off a wave of excitement.
Eastern Conference, on the other side of League, followed Western Conference step by step, ending the series.
Cavaliers ended Celtics 4 to 1 and advanced to Finals.
They will continue last year's feud with Warriors and play another series to determine the NBA Championship trophy.
After the journey of Playoffs ended in an unpleasant process, Thunder also officially entered Off-season. The players can take a vacation.
Although it is said to be a holiday, it is actually only for the big-name players.
For role players, they need to ensure their condition so that they can stay in the NBA. At the same time, they may be traded by the team to an unfamiliar city at any time.
For rookies, the exciting Draft will be held in late June.
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For teams, each team has its own indicators.
After a season, Thunder has basically made clear his team building ideas. Renewing the contract of Chen Xi will become a top priority.
Execute the team option? Stop making trouble, doesn't this mean that you directly offended Chen Xi to death?
In a single season, he averaged 24.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of 43.6% for Shot and a shooting percentage of 46.1% for Three-Pointer. If you give him 550,000 yuan for this kind of data, isn't that insulting?
At the same time, the team also needs to consider transactions. In the bloated back line, Payne and Morrow need to be sent away. A team that aims to compete for the championship does not have time to wait for Payne to grow, nor does it need the firepower support of Morrow.
At the same time, we need to find a Interior player of suitable level as soon as possible to reduce the burden on Adams and Sabonis.
Fortunately, Butler's contract is 95 million for 5 years and expires in 20 years. The increase is not big and the team can completely accept it. At the same time, Westbrook gave up Rose Clause for Harden in 2012. took a salary cut and signed a five-year 80 million contract with the team, but in the end he still failed to get what he wanted. Then last summer, the team renewed the contract with Westbrook in advance for three years and 85 million, and there are still two years left.
The relatively healthy contracts of the two cores will allow Thunder to have great competitiveness in the next two to three years.
So this summer, some of them are very busy.
Similarly, Chen Xi also has his own things to be busy with.
On the coming May 26th, Chen Xi will attend the NBA 2017 Annual Awards Ceremony.
Before the 2016-17 season, the NBA will successively announce the winners of major awards, All-NBA Team, and NBA Best Defensive Team every season after Regular season and during Playoffs.
Then separate press conferences and awards were held for the winning players of each individual award.
In the 14-15 season, the players union took the lead in introducing the concept of a grand awards ceremony. In addition to the League selection awards, the players union also selected major awards through the players' own votes, and held a grand awards ceremony after the season, with many stars attending in costumes.
In the 2016-17 season, League also decided to reform, with the goal of turning the NBA awards into a grand event.
First of all, League decided not to announce the award results one after another after Regular season, but to keep the suspense until after Finals, and announce them all at the award ceremony.
Secondly, the awards ceremony will invite many players, coaches, executives, celebrities and well-known entertainers, making it a star-studded event.
Therefore, this year's first awards ceremony is coming soon. As a strong competitor of Rookie of the Year, Chen Xi will naturally attend.
Although there is no suspense, Brogdon is averaging 10.2 points and 4.2 assists per game. Why can you compete with him?
Then, I attend various business events for sponsors and earn a little money.
And the contract extension with the team.
Thunder is already contacting Moon, and contract renewal negotiations are expected to begin soon.
"With the lessons learned from Harden, you won't let me go this time, right? Thunder Management shouldn't be so stupid." Chen Xi touched his chin and thought.
"After a year of hard work, I was finally able to sign a big contract."
Of course, the top priority for Chen now is to recuperate first. I hope that I won't have to be on crutches until the 26th, how ugly that would be!
On May 26, Basketball City Park in Port No. New York Manhattan 36
Chen Xi, wearing a black suit, attended the NBA 2016-2017 awards ceremony together with Veronica.
Chen, who has fairly good shoulder width, has a bit of a pretty boy's temperament after putting on a suit.
Wearing a well-tailored black suit, he has a tall and straight posture, his black hair is neatly combed to one side, revealing his smooth forehead, and his eyes are confident and assertive.
Next to her, Veronica was wearing a gorgeous evening dress that complemented Chen Xi's black suit. With a smile on her face, she walked slowly into the hall holding Chen Xi's forearm.
After greeting Westbrook not far away with a smile, Chen Xi came to his seat and sat down, waiting for the ceremony to begin.
The host of the party will be Canada famous artist Derrick. In addition, famous female singer Nicki Minaj will perform to Yu Jia guests during the award ceremony. In addition to the current stars who are candidates, there are also a number of celebrities, Vince·Carter, Dirk·Nowitzki, Shaquille O'Neal·O'Neal, Beal·Russell, Grant·Hill, Byron·Davis, Paul·Pierce, etc. will also attend the ceremony.
Hosted by a series of American talk show styles by Derrick, the atmosphere was quite comfortable.
He successfully warmed up the atmosphere by continuously teasing the bad stuff about each star, and then called out the first pair of award guests tonight, Grant·Hill and Jada Pinkett Smith (Will Smith's wife)
After the two came to power, they did not delay or raise any suspicion.
After all, the award they want to award is called Rookie of the Year of the Year.
"The player who won 2016-2017 Rookie of the Year Award--Chris·Chen! Chen Xi!!! Congratulations!"
As Hill finished speaking, Chen Xi's game highlights were played on the big screen.
Then, amidst the applause of everyone in the audience, Chen Xi stood up, hugged his girlfriend and friends one by one, and then walked onto the stage.
After hugging Grant·Hill, the former successor of Jordan, he received the trophy from Rookie of the Year.
The two award presenters stepped aside and gave up the microphone in the middle of the stage to Chen Xi.
Chen Xi also walked to the microphone naturally, ready to start the thank-you session that everyone loves to hear.
"Thank you for your support, thank you all, thank you League." When Chen was sitting in the audience, he never liked this kind of talk on stage, but when he stood up, he said it again.